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The State of Laptop Linux

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: April 8, 2005
LinuxWorld’s senior editor James Turner reports this month on what he calls The State of Laptop Linux in 2005 and says it’s a lot better than it was in 2004, but adds after conducting his own new test to see if any Linux distro is yet really laptop-ready: “What’s needed to make things better? Well, [...]
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IBM Introduces ThinkPad Software Installer

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: April 7, 2005
Any owner of a ThinkPad (or any notebook, for that matter) has faced the following dilemma: you want to reinstall Windows, but don’t want to deal with the hassle that reinstalling the huge amount of drivers and utilities that make the ThinkPad experience complete: skip the drivers, none of your devices will work; miss the [...]
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Ubuntu Linux on the IBM ThinkPad T42

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: March 2, 2005
/*Note: This is a work in progress, and will be updated frequently as my experiences with Ubuntu on my T42 continue. Please contribute by emailing me or leaving a comment below. Last updated: 1/19/05 Table of Contents Introduction [...]
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LinuxWorld Boston 2005

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: February 16, 2005
I made the trip to Boston today to attend the LinuxWorld Exposition. It was well worth the drive and subsequent pain of Big Dig traffic. This was my first ever computer-centric exposition, and I was pleasantly surprised. My fellow IBM co-op and I pre-registered for the Exposition portion of LinuxWorld beforehand. We decided to forgo [...]
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